Bug 457310
Summary: | RTL8101E with driver r8169 does not work on 1000 network | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Joe Quanaim <jdq> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ivan Vecera <ivecera> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 4.7 | CC: | lrich, riek, rlerch | ||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2009-05-18 19:30:55 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Bug Blocks: | 458752 | ||||||
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Description
Joe Quanaim
2008-07-30 20:29:27 UTC
Could you please try my latest test kernel? I don't have an access to r810x hardware now. Kernel is available at: http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/rhel-5-r8169/ Thanks, Ivan Hi Ivan (In reply to comment #1) > Could you please try my latest test kernel? I don't have an access to r810x > hardware now. > > Kernel is available at: > http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/rhel-5-r8169/ Can you provide rhel4 kernels? Placing rhel5 on this machine would be disruptive to the current testing, although, it can be done later. Thanks, Joe. Yes, I will post them ASAP. With rhel 5.2 x86-64 on the same machine, the installer will panic when loading the r8169 driver. To workaround, the nic was disabled in the bios. After install, a similar panic would occur with the default kernel installed (kernel-2.6.18-92.el5) if the nic was reactivated. The top line of the panic was: ... :r8169:rtl8169_init_one+0x3d9/0x9df The provided package kernel-2.6.18-102.el5.r8169.9.x86_64.rpm was installed and the nic now appears to work. The link is established at 100 on a 1000 network without any workaround. Will it be possible to post a rhel4 fix soon? Thanks, Joe. Also, it may be worth noting that on rhel4 with the modprobe options previously described, the nic still occasionally fails to establish a link. An additional reboot usually clears the issue. This happens only sporadically. Hello, I have prepared first kernel packages to test. These should solve this issue. Could you please test them? Available at: http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/rhel-4-r8169/ Installed kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.9.EL.r8169.1.x86_64.rpm and removed modprobe workaround. The machine successfully negotiated link on reboot. Is there any reason to expect a performance degradation? Initial testing might show some slow down. Still, things look better. Will continue to test. Thanks, Joe. The previously mentioned performance slowdown was apparently related to a testing issue. Sorry about that. Things continue to look good. Thanks, Joe. Created attachment 317697 [details]
Final patch sent to review
Committed in 78.13.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/ An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html |